Configuring MSCS (MicroSoft Clustering Service) in the VMware world is a complicated process. I’ve setup many MSCS solutions on VMware, and I still cringe when a customer demands it as a solution. It works, but every time I do it there are always so many little challenges. I’ll try to describe what creates the most […]
According to the vSphere 4.0 release notes (http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_vc40_rel_notes.html ) vCenter Server 4.0 becomes unresponsive in large environments if managing ESX Server 3.5 hosts prior to ESX 3.5 patch 10 vCenter Server 4.0 can become unresponsive in large environments after 30 days if it manages any ESX Server 3.5 hosts prior to ESX Server 3.5 patch […]
I had a another problem with Storage VMotion yesterday and found out a couple of interesting things. Firstly, there is a now a Knowledge Base article explaining how to recreate vmdk header files if they are missing. This was news to me, so here’s the link: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004232 Secondly, was discovering a sightly different approach to […]
Here’s an old trick which works great on ESX servers (thanks to this article on Linux Journal for reminding me). It turns your prompt different colours to highlight when you are logged in as root. To make the prompt red when you’re running as root add this to /root/.bashrc: PS1='[e[31m]u@h:w#[e[m] ‘ To make the prompt […]